It is only when you notice the faint dish of its interior and the gently raised rim that the shape begins to resolve into something deliberate, something made. What was once recorded on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map as a circular enclosure had, by the time the second edition was produced, been reclassified as a circular mound, suggesting that even within the relatively short span of the survey era the site was losing definition and becoming harder to read.

The platform measures 27.4 metres north to south and 22.8 metres east to west across its upper surface, rising to a maximum height of 1.2 metres. Its edge stands no more than 0.85 metres above the interior, and there is no clearly defined bank, which is part of what makes its original function difficult to pin down. Particularly intriguing is the absence of any visible trace of a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage typically associated with early medieval settlement and used for storage or refuge, which the first edition map had indicated was present. That feature, catalogued separately, has left nothing detectable at the surface. The site was surveyed as part of J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, the broader Dingle Peninsula study that brought systematic attention to dozens of monuments scattered across this densely layered landscape.